I've been watching a lot of Youtube videos about Jimi Hendrix. And every time soomeone speack on him, they always bring up Eric Clapton.

I heard Jimi jammed with Cream, and he killed Eric Clapton on guitar. And Eric walked off the staged.

I perfer Jimi over Eric though.

They kissed.

TylerHippie said:

I've been watching a lot of Youtube videos about Jimi Hendrix. And every time soomeone speack on him, they always bring up Eric Clapton.

I heard Jimi jammed with Cream, and he killed Eric Clapton on guitar. And Eric walked off the staged.

I perfer Jimi over Eric though.

I don't know... i think they had more of a friendly rivalry... supposedly Clapton added feedback to his playing because if Jimi.

but i prefer Clapton over Jimi...while Jimi was great... i like Clapton's playing more... it sounds cleaner to me.

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That story is not as over the top as it seems. It's adressed in Claptons bio which i read , Jimi joined Clapton on stage doing a cover of Howling Wolf's Killing Floor. a stunned Eric Clapton turned to Jimi's manager Chas Chandler and said "is he always that f*cking good?" Clapton was good but Jimi was great

Jimi did kill him on guitar but Eric also had some trick's up his sleeves he taught Jimi, and Jimi looked to him as a great friend and even mentor.

But also on the clapton sidea a majority of riffs and distortion methods credited to Hendrix (including the wah-wah and Hendrix Slide) were done by Clapton first really and.

I love Jimi so much .

^^"The first time I saw Eric, I thought well he's a master guitar player but Eric was a guitar player. Jimi was some sort of force of nature."

Clapton may have been "God" but Jimi was from another universe. Eric knew that.

From A Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix (pp. 161-162):

On Saturday, October 1, Eric Clapton and his band Cream were playing a show at Polytechnic in central London. Chas had bumped into Clapton and told him he'd like to introduce him to Jimi . . . In all likelihood, Clapton meant he would be glad to simply meet Jimi, but nonetheless Jimi came with his guitar. . . and as the set break began, Chandler called up to the stage and summoned Clapton over, asking him if Jimi might jam. The request was so preposterous that no one in Cream- Clapton, Jack Bruce, or Ginger Baker- knew quite what to say: No one had ever asked to jam with them before; . . . Jack Bruce finally said, "Sure he can plug into my bass amp." . . . "He got up there and played a killer version of Howlin' Wolf's Killin' Floor," recalled Tony Garland, who was in the audience. "I'd grown up around Eric, and I knew what a fan he was of Albert King's slow version of that song. When Jimi started his take, though, it was about three times as fast as Albert King's version, and you could see Eric's jaw drop- he didn't know what was going to come next." When Clapton recalled the show in an interview with Uncut, he noted, "I thought, "My god, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'"

When Jack Bruce later told his version of the fabled event, he focused on Clapton's reaction . . . "It must have been difficult for Eric to handle," Bruce said, "because [Eric] was 'God', and this unknown person comes along, and burns."

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^In some Hendrix documentary it was Chas Chandler I think that said Clapton actually cried backstage after witnessing Hendrix do Killin' Floor. To play the riff's octave chords so fast and fluid with the thumb keeping the bass is pretty impressive, I've got quite long fingers and can't manage it.

I have read that once when Jimi was playing Eric and Jeff Beck were standing in the audience and after a few minutes Jeff turned to Eric and said we're fucked!

I've watched a few docs on Hendrix (including the amusing one with

Little Richard dressed in a blue outfit sitting on top of a piano) where

Clapton himself admits that he and Townshend went to go see Hendrix

play (Clapton mentions that he and Townshend weren't particularly

good friends) and they ended up holding hands together:

http://crosstowntorrents....mi-Hendrix

So yeah, when this is happening to Clapton:

http://www.google.com/img...p;dur=1027

And then Hendrix shows up, the answer is "yes."

Some of these stories are way exagerated

Clapton did say fuck me he's good, but all the one's with jeff beck, boy kissing, man slapping , little richard toe tappin are not true

People where impressed by Jimi's incredible skill so very true, but the story's of the supposedly ''crazy'' thing's it made people do are silly

Yeah I don't believes those stories either about Eric touching other men as soon as he heard Hendrix. But the parts of him being blown away by Hendrix was true.

This sounds like the musical equivalent of Jordan dropping 63 on the '86 Celtics in the Garden, with Eric Clapton as Larry Bird.

Here are some kewl Jimi related videos if you guys don't mind.

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Clapton spent a lot of time chasing Hendrix' skill when Jimi was alive. Eric was good but knew that Hendrix had that certain something that he (Clapton) didn't (and doesn't) have. They're two very different players, but people recognize Hendrix as a ground breaking artist whereas Clapton's just a really good guitar player.

I think all the British kids who were spending years learning and playing electric blues felt like phonies when Jimi moved to England to record with the Experience, but Ginger Baker defends Cream as being the better band of the two.

Paul McCartney tells a funny story about Jimi, and yeah there was a rivalry. At the time, Clapton was either laughing or ready to crawl under his chair.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

Never was much of a Hendrix fan, and every since Clapton's racist rant about returning England back to pure White folks I have been done with him. At the end of the day it doesn't matter, Hendrix thought Jeff Beck was the best, and likewise. Clapton even realizes it.

TylerHippie said:

I've been watching a lot of Youtube videos about Jimi Hendrix. And every time soomeone speack on him, they always bring up Eric Clapton.

I heard Jimi jammed with Cream, and he killed Eric Clapton on guitar. And Eric walked off the staged.

I perfer Jimi over Eric though.

guitarslinger44 said:

paniuroczy said:

guitarslinger44 said:

Clapton spent a lot of time chasing Hendrix' skill when Jimi was alive. Eric was good but knew that Hendrix had that certain something that he (Clapton) didn't (and doesn't) have. They're two very different players, but people recognize Hendrix as a ground breaking artist whereas Clapton's just a really good guitar player.

I think Clapton was definitely groundbreaking.... when he was with Cream. Personally, I feel like his solo stuff is just okay. So yeah I mean Cream was a groundbreaking band but Jimi was... some sort of unearthly and earth shattering force of nature. He could bring people to tears, move people, and make people fucking question their existance. Eric didn't have that. I don't think Eric was 'god' like everyone said, Jimi was truly the God of guitar.

You just earned my respect with this post.

Didn't Jimi once say something along the lines that he thought Leslie West was a better guitarist than he was?

rialb said:

Didn't Jimi once say something along the lines that he thought Leslie West was a better guitarist than he was?

Yes him & Billy Gibbons

Did Jimi Hendrix like Kath?

Hendrix once told Chicago saxophonist Walter Parazaider "Your guitar player is better than me." The two guitarists knew each other, and when Hendrix took Chicago on tour, he reportedly jammed with Kath on stage.

A long-time Chicago fan has reported that at one Hendrix concert, Jimi made a reference to Kath out of the blue, saying something to the effect, "You gotta check out this guy Terry Kath. His band is CTA. He's the best guitar player in the universe."

http://www.spinner.com/2010/09/24/zz-tops-billy-gibbons-jimi-hendrix/

Jimi loved Eric and Jeff's playing but he blew them out of the water.

But having said that: Jimi, Eric when he was in the Bluebreakers and Cream and Jeff Beck during the "Truth/Beck-Ola are (IMO) the best of the 60's heroes. Page was sloppy. Pete Townsend can't solo.

Jimi

Jeff Beck

Eric Clapton.

http://jasobrecht.com/jim...ve-barker/

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carlcranshaw said:

Did Jimi Hendrix like Kath?

Hendrix once told Chicago saxophonist Walter Parazaider "Your guitar player is better than me." The two guitarists knew each other, and when Hendrix took Chicago on tour, he reportedly jammed with Kath on stage.

A long-time Chicago fan has reported that at one Hendrix concert, Jimi made a reference to Kath out of the blue, saying something to the effect, "You gotta check out this guy Terry Kath. His band is CTA. He's the best guitar player in the universe."

http://www.spinner.com/2010/09/24/zz-tops-billy-gibbons-jimi-hendrix/

Jimi loved Eric and Jeff's playing but he blew them out of the water.

But having said that: Jimi, Eric when he was in the Bluebreakers and Cream and Jeff Beck during the "Truth/Beck-Ola are (IMO) the best of the 60's heroes. Page was sloppy. Pete Townsend can't solo.

Jimi

Jeff Beck

Eric Clapton.

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Maybe, but he was a better songwriter than Jimi, Eric or Jeff.

rialb said:

carlcranshaw said:

Did Jimi Hendrix like Kath?

Hendrix once told Chicago saxophonist Walter Parazaider "Your guitar player is better than me." The two guitarists knew each other, and when Hendrix took Chicago on tour, he reportedly jammed with Kath on stage.

A long-time Chicago fan has reported that at one Hendrix concert, Jimi made a reference to Kath out of the blue, saying something to the effect, "You gotta check out this guy Terry Kath. His band is CTA. He's the best guitar player in the universe."

http://www.spinner.com/2010/09/24/zz-tops-billy-gibbons-jimi-hendrix/

Jimi loved Eric and Jeff's playing but he blew them out of the water.

But having said that: Jimi, Eric when he was in the Bluebreakers and Cream and Jeff Beck during the "Truth/Beck-Ola are (IMO) the best of the 60's heroes. Page was sloppy. Pete Townsend can't solo.

Jimi

Jeff Beck

Eric Clapton.

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Maybe, but he was a better songwriter than Jimi, Eric or Jeff.

To be fair I think Pete's guitar tones are great. If you listen to the "All The Best Cowboys........ it is chocked with great tones.

Co-sign on Pete's songwriting. "Slit Skirts" and "Cry If You Want To" are my favorite Townsend compositions.

Dig If Will The Who as they guide you to the Purple Rain. I mean uh, Hey, here's The Who.

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